A man refused to buy his girlfriend a $10,000 engagement ring because she’s not “worth it.” In a post shared to the Am I A**hole forum on Reddit , a 26-year-old man shared why he didn’t want to buy his girlfriend, 26, of four years an expensive engagement ring as they’ve been increasingly discussing marriage. He noted that the two of them had disagreed over rings, with the girlfriend saying that she wanted a more expensive one, which shocked him because she had been previously “low maintenance.
” “Although my [girlfriend] grew up relatively well off, for the time I’ve known her she’s been pretty low maintenance,” she said. “She’s never cared about designer brands, rarely buys new clothes, and the jewelry she owns was gifted to her.” He wrote that he’s had a decent-paying job for a while, and has been saving as well, but since he grew up with less money, he’s more hesitant to spend such a large amount on it.
Ordinarily, he and his girlfriend are on the same page financially, but when he suggested they go with the more affordable moissanite rings, his girlfriend was not happy. “When I mentioned this to her, she insisted she wanted a real diamond ring and sent me links to a bunch of diamond rings that she liked. The prices ranged from $6,500–$10,000.
I told her that I wasn’t willing to spend that much,” he wrote. “She seemed genuinely mad and said it wasn’t ‘that expensive.’ We got in a pretty big argument over it.
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